First of all, I am not here to tell you what you should or shouldn't like. If the last seasons of the Simpsons are some of your favorites, I am genuinely glad.

First of all, I am not here to tell you what you should or shouldn't like. If the last seasons of the Simpsons are some of your favorites, I am genuinely glad. Having said that, I don't think your personal outlook matches the opinion of the average Simpsons viewer. I took a quick look at the ratings over the years up to season 31 (which is all that was available in this dataset [1]), and the average IMDB rating for seasons 29 to 31 are 6.61, 6.04 and 6.37. For context, season 15 was the first season to get an average rating under 7 and seasons 2-8 are all above 8. But more generally, I wouldn't call a "groupthink meme" something that, even with an optimistic point of view, has been true for 17 years and allegedly less true for 6. I would rather call it "a strong prior". [1] https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/hod101s/simpsons-imdb-ratings https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/hod101s/simpsons-imdb-rating...